Chinese New Year Celebration Enter the Dragon! Sun 29th Jan & Sat 18th Feb

Wish you all a prosperous New Year!

We will meet in China Town at 2pm on Sun 29th Jan call me for where to meet on the day. Join us to celebrate the year of Dragon! 

Dragon Dinner Party!

Sat 18th Feb from 5pm at my flat, bring drinks, food will be provided (RSVP only)

Myanmar lethwei (Kick Boxing)

Poor guy got knock out, wake him up ask him if he want to continue he said yes, as simple as that the fight must go on! 

Fair fight from Russia via Myanmar, even Burmese crowd were cheering this Russian knows all our techniques.  No matter you are burmese or not if you train hard you can win native fighter.

Fight between Armenia via Myanmar is not fair, Heavy weight against medium weight. Draw on Thai via Myanmar. None the less good to see more and more foreign fighters coming into Myanmar and compete in traditional Burmese Kick Boxing. Blood and Sweat is bonus not just to the fighters but also to the fans who sit too close to  the ring.

p.s No matter who win or lose this only represent individual fighting skills, it would be stupid to conclude that country A can beat country B.

Chinese Freemasons (Hong Men) in Yangon

This is where I was asked to sit in Ma Bu (Horse Stance) before I was allow to join the brotherhood and learn Kung Fu in youth club. 

Good to be back to where I started my Kung Fu training. In those days you have to earn the approval from Sifu and fellow Kung Fu brothers and sisters. Little I know this is my first step into my life long passion in Kung Fu. Now my Sifu is retired and my Kung Fu brothers is in charge, good to see them going strong and preserve chinese martial arts knowledge, culture and language to the next generations to come.   

What is Chinese Freemasons?

Dit Da Jow Home Made Chinese Herbs Medicine (Iron Body training)

My Master now 73 years old taught me how to make Dit Da Jow. It is my great honour to learn this secret formula. I have seem many martial artists doing hardcore body conditioning without medicine aid, in the long term this could cause serious health problems specially in joints. 


p.s My lucky students this is for external use only, do not drink!

Dit Da Jow is a popular Chinese liniment sold to heal external damage such as bruises or sore muscles. There are several different recipes for Dit Da Jow, most of which are considered to be a "secret formula" passed down through oral and written history of Traditional Chinese Medicine, martial arts, and modern Western science. Although Chinese tradition traces the origins of Chinese medicine to demigods named the Divine Plowman (Sheng Nung) and the Yellow Emperor (Huang Ti), who are said to have lived in the early 3rd millennium B.C., the earliest available historical records of Chinese medicine are medical texts dating from the Han Dynasty via several Chinesemateria medica.

Dit Da Jow is an analgesic liniment traditionally preferred by martial artists. Often a martial arts master blended his unique mixture of many aromatic herbs such as myrrh and ginseng, which were combined to stimulate circulation, reduce pain and swelling, and improve healing injuries and wounds.^[1] The tradition became known as "hit medicine". Many people have also found this sort of liquid analgesic to be useful for reducing aching muscles, arthritis and rheumatism discomfort.

All bruise liniment formulas contain ingredients to stop pain, reduce swelling and inflammation and disperse stagnant qi and blood. It is composed of cooling herbs to reduce swelling and inflammation as effectively as ice; and warming herbs that kill pain, promote circulation, and break up accumulations of stagnant blood and fluids.

Herbs in the formulas according to TCM use "temperature" and "action". with each herb exhibiting an "energy" that has an effect on the body. Some are cold while others are hot. The overall combination of herbs in a Dit Da Jow formula determines its relative energy. Warmer jow is more often used in conditioning or chronic injury while cooler jow is more likely to be used for new injuries that may be inflamed. The action of each herb has specific uses. A Dit Da Jow should have one or two primary actions, determined by the herbs which are used in the Dit Da Jow formula.^[2]

Most bruises are usually shrugged off by athletes and martial artists as minor injuries that will heal themselves. Over the centuries, kung fu practitioners noticed that large bruises or repeated bruising on one area sometimes created accumulations of stagnant qi and blood that could cause serious health problems years later. Trauma liniment was developed to disperse these accumulations and treat sports injuries, thereby prolonging the soldier/warrior/athlete's career and health.